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Vintage Clav models
The Model pop-up menu in the control bar lets you choose a basic type of tone, or model. Each
model oers a unique tonal characteristic and dierent harmonic structure, designed to create
very dierent sounds. See Vintage Clav model characteristics.
The individual models are fully realized instruments and are immediately playable, without
further modication. You can shape the tonal character of any loaded model with Vintage Clav
model editing parameters. See Vintage Clav Details window overview.
In some respects, you can view the choice of model as being similar to selecting an oscillator
waveform in a synthesizer. As with raw synthesizer waveforms, parameters can aect the model
quite dierently. For example, using identical parameter settings can make one model more
nasal sounding and another model more noisy.
Note: When playing, you may notice some points on the keyboard where the sound changes
signicantly between adjacent keys. This is intentional and reects the behavior of some of the
clavinet models emulated by Vintage Clav. The original D6 has some strong key-to-key timbral
dierences, the most obvious being between the highest wound string, and the lowest, non-
wound string. If you like the original’s sound but not the original’s mechanical timbre jumps, try
the Mellotone model.